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It is ironic that a movement that made its reputation championing the irrelevance of biological differences when those differences were to most women's disadvantage immediately returned to biological determinism when those differences were to the most women's advantage.

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Warren Farrell
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: June 26
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